Fellows! Thank you all so much for your continued feedback!

We wanted to give you all a heads up that Fellowship will be going into scheduled Weekly Maintenance tomorrow, December 11, at 7:00am CET, so we can go out with a patch. Reminder: Weekly Maintenance is at 7am CET every Thursday.

Maintenance Details:

• Start Time: 7:00 AM CET

• Servers: Offline during this time

• What’s This Maintenance For? This maintenance is for us to release a patch that will introduce Stronghold Hearthwarming Event, Quickplay changes, other improvements..

• Patch Launch: Immediately following maintenance tomorrow

• See below for patch notes!

Thank you again for your feedback and ongoing support!

Over the holiday period our team is going to be taking a break and enjoying the midwinter with family and friends. This will be the last scheduled update until the new year and we wanted to leave players with something to keep them warm.

We’ve decorated the Stronghold with snow and festive fun, and our very jolly vendor has unlockable skins and mounts available through in-game activities until January 15th.

As part of our continued review of existing experiences, we’ve wanted to take a look at the effectiveness of Quickplay for some time. Our immediate goal is to ensure the intentions of Quickplay are preserved without veteran players being made to feel required to play in modes they are not interested in. As a result we’ve made major changes to how Marks of Fellowship are earned.

We will continue to monitor how these changes to Quickplay affect not just the experience of the mode, but the economy as a whole as we look at how it affects the rate of progression from here. This is unlikely to be the last change we make to the mode, but we wanted to see the effect of these changes to base our next steps on.

Festive cheer warms the Stronghold through the midwinter!

• Added snow piles throughout the Stronghold that can be picked up, adding a ‘Special’ festive ability.

• Added the Notice Board to the Stronghold to allow players to receive information about major content changes in the game.

• Added the ‘Old Thistlefrost’ NPC Vendor to the Stronghold with a sackfull of new cosmetics!

• Added \[Captain’s Uniform] Helena Skin.

• Added \[Admiral’s Regalia] Helena Skin.

• Added \[Holly Snowcoat] Meiko Skin.

• Added \[Thistlefrost Costume] Meiko Skin.

• Added \[Northern Comforts] Tariq Skin.

• Added \[Lumberjacked Outfit] Tariq Skin.

• Added \[Chic Winterwear] Mara Skin.

• Added \[Fashionista Attire] Mara Skin.

• Added \[General’s Ensemble] Elarion Skin.

• Added \[Commandant’s Uniform] Elarion Skin.

• Added \[Grumpy’s Garbs] Ardeos Skin.

• Added \[Mister Million’s Suit] Ardeos Skin.

• Added \[Winter Helper’s Outfit] Rime Skin.

• Added \[Idedancer Regalia] Rime Skin.

• Added \[Snugglebug Outerwear] Sylvie Skin.

• Added \[Playful Pajamas] Sylvie Skin.

• Added \[Rascal Onesie] Vigour Skin.

• Added \[Mischievous Pajamas] Vigour Skin.

• Added \[Warmheart Drafthorse] Mount.

• Added \[Whitemane Wolf] Mount.

• Added \[Cindermaw] Mount.

• Added \[Willy Wind-Up] Mount.

• Added \[Brum the Winter Warmth] Mount.

• Updated the underlying system for tracking the Stronghold Tutorial. Known Issue: Will reset progress but should be more reliable in the future.

• Added a ‘Recently Met’ tab on the friends list screen, listing players that have been in the same sessions as you, making it easier to build social connections with players at your level.

• Added Rich Presence to the player’s friends list, letting them see what their friends are up to while playing elsewhere in Fellowship.

• Added Armor categories (Cloth, Leather, Mail, and Plate) to item tooltips. These values have always been present in the item but haven’t been exposed to tooltips until now. These categories give a quick indication of stat values of each item for comparison.

• Updated the clarity of the UI elements (buttons and icons) for more contrast and greater readability across all screens.

• Updated the 'Dungeon Info' HUD element for cleaner information and greater readability.

• Updated the UI for strict tier select elements on the Eternal Matchmaking screen.

• Fixed an issue where items were incorrectly being referenced as ‘Unique’

• Removed Marks of Fellowship from the Quickplay reward pool. Quickplay now only rewards Supplies.

• Increased Marks of Fellowship rewards to League matches:

  • Challenge

    • Regular Dungeons: 1 Mark guaranteed + % Chance of 1 more based on Difficulty

    • Capstone Dungeons: 2 Marks guaranteed + % Chance of 1 more based on Difficulty

      • Ransack of Drakheim would therefore drop 3 Marks Guaranteed

  • Eternal

    • Regular Dungeons: 2 Marks guaranteed + % Chance of 1 more based on Difficulty

    • Capstone Dungeons: 4 Marks guaranteed + % Chance of 1 more based on Difficulty

      • % Chance of 1 More Caps at guaranteed in Eternal 100+

• Added direct purchase of Ingots, Aethers, and Godstones at different prices for each level of rarity in exchange for Marks of Fellowship.

• Fixed an issue where Godstones were not dropping in leagues correctly.

• Removed Timed Boxes from the Resource Vendor.

• Added 48 nodes to the starmap tied to the Winter Event, rewarding players with ‘Warm Wishes’, a festive currency to be exchanged for festive gifts.

• Tariq and Vigour now use Mail armor instead of Plate. This will lower their armor stat based off of gear.

• Elarion now uses Mail armor instead of Leather. This will increase their armor stat based off of gear.

• Fixed an issue where \[Wrath of Winter] would not generate resource orbs if players were not in combat.

• Fixed an issue where Rime’s Resource Orbs were not scaling correctly when scaled in the HUD Edit tool.

• Fixed an issue where \[Grappling Arrow] was not pulling enemies to correct locations across difficult terrain.

• Updated tooltip for \[Earthfist Barrage] to correctly show a Haste-scaled channel time rather than the base value.

Each dungeon in Adept league and above will include one additional curse which adds an optional ‘Spirit of Winter’ boss fight to the dungeon. Completing this fight will give players a bonus for the duration of the dungeon and extend the dungeon’s timer.

• ‘Ghorn, the Avalanche’ - Defeating Ghorn will cause him to return as an ally in subsequent boss fights.

• ‘Krumbug, the Naughty’ - Defeat Krumbug will extend the Dungeon Timer by 1 minute and add a chance for subsequent attacks to spawn an Explosive Windup Mouse that charges your selected target.

• ‘Eira, the White Witch’ - Defeating Eira will extend the Dungeon Timer by 3 minutes and causes her to return periodically during the dungeon to protect players in combat.

• Updated the AI system to add padding after being Crowd Controlled or Interrupt so they don’t immediately start casting their next ability.

• Fixed an issue with the opacity system which would make weapons to not fade in/out when bosses reset, and other problems.

• Fixed an issue where bosses sometimes are visible while resetting and are facing the wrong way after they have been reset.

• Fixed an issue where players who die and are resurrected while attached to the \[Grasping Pillar] have inconsistent behavior after resurrection.

• Fixed an issue where \[Auga Haghafi] would spawn in the ground or overlapping other objects.

• Fixed an issue where the Prophet Ez'roth’s \[Wicked Hook] was not targeting the closest player.

Hi Fellows!

We know you've been eagerly awaiting for details on the upcoming Winter Holiday event that will go live in our upcoming patch this Thursday, December 11. Our latest Dev Update (below) shares everything you need to know! Not only that, in this latest Dev Update, Hamish also covers some big news about Quickplay and the surrounding Marks of Fellowship economy.